Comment on Why LLMs can't really build software
Feyd@programming.dev 1 week agoBefore LLMs people were often saying this about people smarter than the rest of the group. “Yeah he was too smart and overengineered solutions that no one could understand after he left,”.
This part.
hisao@ani.social 1 week ago
The fact that I dislike it that it turned out that software engineering is not a good place for self-expression or for demonstrating your power level or the beauty and depth of your intricate thought patterns through advanced constructs and structures you come up with, doesn’t mean that I disagree that this is true.
Feyd@programming.dev 1 week ago
The problem is that you don’t realize that writing code that is difficult to maintain is in fact not a sign of intelligence, or “power level”.
hisao@ani.social 1 week ago
It depends. If it’s difficult to maintain because it’s some terrible careless spaghetti written by person who didn’t care enough, then it’s definitely not a sign of intelligence or power level. But if it’s difficult to maintain because the rest of the team can’t wrap their head around type-level metaprogramming or edsl you came up with, then it’s a different case.
chunkystyles@sopuli.xyz 1 week ago
No. Both are hard to maintain. And in fact, I’d prefer the spaghetti. It can be untangled.
JordanZ@lemmy.world 6 days ago
very_well_lost@lemmy.world 1 week ago
lolwut? I’m so tired of tech people acting like they’re the next Genghis Khan or Julius Caesar…
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 6 days ago
Yup. I assist with hiring and ask questions to try to find these people and reject them. I don’t want that toxic culture here, and I’d absolutely prefer working with someone less talented than someone who is toxic like this.
chunkystyles@sopuli.xyz 1 week ago
If your code is as comprehensible as that run-on sentence, I can understand why coworkers would ask you to please write simpler code.